Made a thread on this a while ago. Not only are USF and UKF bases free to repair, but the random crap all around them and the corpses they leave actually block shots making them even more durable - effectively placing them in cover.

They need to pay like everyone else OR buildings for everyone except OKW should be free to replace and be extremely fragile. There's no incentive to base raid and it puts very little pressure on someone who has dug in all their forces at the front, purely because they know the base can tank the hits.

I'm not talking about Annihilate specifically; otherwise, I would have marked it in the thread title.

If you are somehow able to get some units to the enemy's base by weaseling through a gap and then are able to destroy at least one base building, you should at least do a bit more damage than merely forcing them to repair a building. When facing up against Soviets, Ostheer or OKW and destroy one of their base buildings, they have to re-build their building full cost. Attacking a strategic point (in this case: the USF/UKF base) should be rewarded more than what it is currently. That's all.

For the sake of constancy something needs done. There is no reason some factions should be more resistant to base raids than others (usf is king here with 4938 machine gun bunkers and crap that blocks shots)

From what I can recall, the reason that their bases are easy to repair is because they're easy to destroy - all of the buildings being grouped together like that makes them notoriously easy to harass with artillery.

Granted, I'm not DEFENDING the free repair, I'm just saying that's the reason that was given.

A fair enough point - but most arty has been either nerfed or restricted out of base sectors so it's not really an issue anymore.

The whole idea behind deteching a faction is to punish them for having all their units so far forward. It allows skilled use of lights to delay the enemies mediums and to weaken their strong points or som cities by forcing soldiers to retreat *before* the building goes down.